Weird rules to follow

key selling points

• a young indigenous girl growing up in the 1980s learns some hard lessons about friendship, family and cultural differences.
• this coming-of-age debut novel explores the themes of racism, microaggressions and friendship through a series of vignettes.
• weird rules to follow offers a glimpse of life in a remote coastal fishing community from an indigenous perspective.
• the author is indigenous and a graduate of sfu’s writer’s studio, where she specialized in creative nonfiction.
• the narrative is told in “scenes from a life” episodes that form a cohesive whole.
• weird rules to follow won a 2024 pnba book award, the 2023 iode violet downey book award, the 2023 jean little first-novel award, the 2023 geoffrey bilson award for historical fiction for young people and the 2023 td canadian children’s literature award.